From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 12 09:47:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA03198 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03183 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20424; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:46:50 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199801121746.LAA20424@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP In-Reply-To: <19980112120742.56306@reactor> from Lukas Wunner at "Jan 12, 98 12:07:42 pm" To: lukas@design.de (Lukas Wunner) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:46:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: mountin.man@mixcom.com, lukas@design.de, lem@cantv.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Since you have a Tyan, what about the S1668 Titan Pro for the > > PPro with 5 PCI slots and up to 1 Gb of memory? > > Have you actually *tested* if this board will grok 1GB of memory or are > you just saying this out of the blue, based on the specs published by > Tyan? If the latter is the case, let me assure you that Tyan's specs > aren't worth a penny when it comes to accurateness. The Tomcat III board > is advertised to support 512MB of RAM, which would be sufficient for our > news machine. However, in contrast to the specs, it actually only supports > a maximum of 256MB of RAM which is not sufficient. I have tested this with > lots of different types of SIMMs and with several permutations of these > SIMMs to no avail. If the machine has been turned off for a while and is > cold, it will (unreliably) report either 256MB or 288MB. In all other > cases, it will report 256MB on bootup. Michael Beckmann has reported > a similar problem: he didn't even manage to get the Tomcat III to work > with 256MB of RAM (the system didn't run too stable). Downgrading to 192MB > would solve the problem. I had the same problem with the III's... The IV's can handle it correctly. The problem with the 3's was having a higher chip count per simm than tyan allowed. (if you read between the lines on their specs)... You *can* get 256MB to work on a III if you use simms with very few chips per somm. Kevin